Telephone-receiver holder.



S. C. SLADDEN. TELEPHONE RECEIVER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 16A 1911!y j with the present view, showin tion; Fig.

SIDNEY C. SLADDEN, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

TELEPHONE-RECEIVER HOLDER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

Application led May 16,1912. Serial No. 697,602.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, SIDNEY C. Scannen, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Telephone-Receiver Holder, ot which the following is a full, clear, and exact de vscription.

Among the principal ohjects which the present invention has in view are: to pro vide a holder of the character mentioned, which, when disposed in service, mechaniw cally su ported; to provide a support which is quick y and readily manipulated, and one whlch, when released from service position, yautomatically opens the telephone circuit and to close the hell circuit; to provide a holder arranged to compel the proper dis position of the parts of the instrument; to provide a holder in the shape of an attachment to the ordinary telephone instrument, adapted for use thereon without altering or interfering with the construction ot' said instrument; to provide means for securing the holder in out-of-service position; and to provide means for safeguarding the telephone against unwarranted use.

. Reference is to he had to theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this s ecitication, in which similar characters o referenee indicate. correspondingparts in all the views, and in whic Figure 1 is a perspective view of a holder constructed and arranged in accordance invention, showing the same in conjunction with the usual telephone desk-stand, and in out-of-service position, the stand and receiver being shown in broken lines, and the holder being shown in out-of-serviee position; Fig. 2 is a similar the holder in service posi- 3 is an enlarged detail view in pers ective, of a fragment of the parts of the older disposed in such a manner as to show the construction; Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail View, showing the clamp :tor mounting the holder upon a desk-stand for a telephone transmitter; and Fig. 5 is a detail View of the` nger fordepressing the supporting yoke. i

As seen in the accompanying drawings, a small receiver A is employed in conjunction with the usual transmitter B mounted upon a desk-stand C. j As is usual, the stand C lis provided with a supporting yoke D. The

vided with a fixed jaw 10 and a movable jaw l1. The two jaws are pivotally connected by a pin l2 extending through hinge tahs of usual construction. The jaws 1() and ll are further provided with locking extensions 13 and 14, the former of which is provided with a tapped-perforat1on to register with threads formed on a screw 15,` while the latter is :furnished with a perforation sufficiently large to freely pass the shank of the screw 15. The screw 15, as shawn in the drawings, is provided with a wing-uut head 1G. l

At the outer end ol the fixed arm 9 is provided a hall 17. The hall 17 is furnished with grooves 18 and 19 disposed in angular relation. The groove 19 is short, and is provided as a holding recess for the squared guide piu 20, which is structurally mounted in a movable jaw 22, as seen best in Fig. 8 ot drawings.

To fit and envelop the hall 17, I provide the jaws 22 and with a concave portion, such as Q1, seen host in Fig. 3 of the drawings, The jaws Z2 and Q3 are each provided with hinge tabs Q-lf and Q5, respectively, and with fastening extensions 2G and Q7; The extension QG has a. threaded perforation 28 to register with a screw Q9, while a corresponding perforation in the extension 2T is enlarged, to pass freely the shank of said screw. Any suitable means is employed at this part o t' the construction to prevent the, extensions QG and Q7 binding upon the' hall 17.

rlhe receiver A is held in any suitable recept-nele, that shown in the drawings being spring jaws 30, which, forced over the receiver', hold the saine rigidly in position. Thilo `I havel shown the jaws SO as made of spring metal, it 4will he understood that these jaws may he substituted hy a more rigid construction, and one in which is permitted the inunovahle or dillicult-to-remove mounting of the said receiver.

l35,V through which a heeey/ec Intermediate the jaws 30 and the jaws 22, 23, is an arm Pil.. 'ifhe f rm 3l., as seen in the drawings, is constructed from braced strips et sheet or band metal, this construetion having been adopted as ollering the least Weight with the maximum rigidity. lt Will bounderstood that Vl ani not limited to such construction; any arm 'which serves the purpose ivill serve at 4this point.

Attached to the arm 3l is a curved linger 32. The linger l is shaped substantially as shown in the drawings, and is disposed on the arm 231 so that the upturned point $.33 will enter one o'lf the eyelets l1) lorn'ied on the yoke il), when said yoke li Ytted by a spring provided i'or this purposcgto the service position ol said yoke, such as it .ordinarily assumes Whenever the receive-i.' is lifted therefrom. The linger 32 is so shaped that the under surface thereot operates as a cam, the othce ot' which is to depress the yoke l) ivhensaid finger has been 'Fully inserted in said eyelet, as seen in Fig. l ol drawings. The finger 32 thus serves to loivcr 'the yoke l), to hold the electric terminals connected with the yoke D in closed relation, so lthat'. the electric-bell circuit is in position to be closed by the central.

The linger is provided with a recess 34.-, formed on the under edge thereof to provide a pocket with 'which the eyelet lil registers, to be held thereby and to check the rebound of the arm Si.

At the end ot the linger 'i as shown in Fig. 5 ol" drawings, is formed a perforation i shackle ot :i Suitable padlock is passed to prevent the Withdrawal l the tinger l di. trom the eyelet li olf the yoke l). ln this manner, a simple provision is niade whereby the oivner ot the telepl'ione may lock the receiver, and therein' prevent the unwarranted use oi the telephone.

then 'constructed and arranglal as seen in the accompanyiirgA drawings, a telephone instruimmt is operated as .follows z-Desiring to use the telephone, the operator .li'lts the arni 3l until the pin itl is lifted upward through the groove 18 to the top thereof. The operator then pressing1 lightly to 'the lett', or to the direction ot the-groove 19, permits the arm 3l and the receiver il to slightly tall until the pin 2O rests against the bottom or loiver end ol the groove l). ln disposing the receiver in the position above-mentioned, it will be seen that the linger has been vvitlulraivn from engagement with the eyelet` E o't` the yoke l), said yoke beinemoved by the spring, indepemlent ol the construction ot the stand, is elevated, and the telephone circuit is thereby closed, while the lwll-circuit is thereby opened. 'The position inl which the operator `tinally disl'ioses the receiver fi is that shown in Fig. Q of dra-.-.'ing's. Tfn el'fn't. on the partI of the user is .required to maintain the receiver in the position shown and mentioned. Also, it will be found that in this position the correlation established between the receiver A and the transmitter l5 is impro-ved. The person using the telephone, While in this position, and placing,` his ear so as to cover the bell ot the receiver A., is held so that his month is at the proper speaking distance to the transmitter B. rlhe user, having linished, novv lifts the arm 311, until the pin 20 passes out of the groove 18 and into the groove 19. The user may `no\v,it in a. holder, drop the arm, when it` will be found that the arm 3l, swingingv upon the ball l?, inserts the finger Within the eyelet E, and lowers the yoke D, until the telephone circuit is open and the electric bell circuit closed. lt Will be found, in this connection, that the recess Si will register with and retain the holder in its desired set position. lt', non', the owner or lessee of the telephone desires to leave the telephone, he may secure the saine against use during his absence by placing the shackle of the padlock above referred to through' the perforation S5, snapping said shackle into lockingposition. ln this position, it is obvious that the .linger holds the arm 31 out of service position, preventing thereby the necessary lifting oi" said arm to disposed the receiver A in usable relation to the transmitter B.

Having thus described my invention, lf claim as neiv and desire to secure by Letters Patentzl. The combination ot a telephone instrument havinga body portion, a relatively fixed transmitter. a relatively movable receiver, and a yielding;` support for said receiver, operable to make and break the telephone and bell electric circuits; a stiff brin-kot arm extended laterally from andy rigidly secured to said body portion and ha vingl at the outer end thereof a globular hinge member provided with a verticallydisposed guide groove; a supporting arm rigidly connected with said receiver and having a eup-shalied hinge member adapted to envelop said globularhinge member, and

provided Wi th a registering,` device to move m said groove, and means for locking' said supporting arm in telephone-in-service and telophone-out-ot-service positions.

Q. The combination of a telephone instrument having a body portion, a relatively fixed transmitter, a relatively movable receiver, and a yielding support for Saidreceiver; operable to make and break the telephone and bell electric circuits; a stiff ln'acket. arm extended laterally from and rigidly secured to said`body portion and having at the other end thereof a. globular hinge member provided with a verticallydisposed guide groove; a supporting arm rigidly connected with said receiver and having` a cup-shaped hinge member adapted to envelop said globular hinge member, and substantially horizontal or telephone-in- 10 rovded with a registerin? device to move service position. 1n said groove; means for ockng said sup- In testimony whereof have signed my porting arm in telephone-in-servioe and telename to this specification in the presence of 5 phone-out-o-servce positions; and a short two subscribing witnesses.

switch groove formed in said lglobular hinge SIDNEY C. SLADDEN. member,` in open communication with sind Witnesses: vertical groove ada ted to receive said regis- E. F. MURDOGK, tering device to ho d the supporting arm in PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS. 

